St. Joseph shortstop Mark Hirschbeck puts the tag on Trumbull base stealer Chris Masi in the second inning of their FCIAC baseball matchup at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn. on Monday, May 5, 2014.

Trumbull's Jake Levison steals second as St. Joseph second baseman Dave Capela leaps high to receive the throw from catcher in the third inning of their FCIAC baseball matchup at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn. on Monday, May 5, 2014.

St. Joseph second baseman Dave Capela tries to get to a ground ball base hit in the first inning of their FCIAC baseball matchup with rival Trumbull at Trumbull High School in Trumbull, Conn. on Monday, May 5, 2014.

After surrendering a pair of early runs, Amoroso bounced back to hold Trumbull scoreless over the last six frames as St. Joseph edged the Eagles 4-2.

"They've (Trumbull) got a pretty good lineup there," Cadets coach Jim Chaves said. "He settled down and kept them at bay. He pretty much held them down after that."

Trumbull took advantage of Amoroso's wildness in the first, plating two runs on two hits, but the Eagles didn't do much after that. They recorded only three hits from the second inning on, leaving four on base.

St. Joseph helped its starter by responding with a pair of runs in the second. One run scored on a Colin Keyes wild pitch, and second baseman Dave Capela tied it with a two-out single up the middle.

Despite recording only seven hits, the Cadets manufactured enough runs. They scored their third run on a wild pitch in the fourth, and they pushed across another in the fifth on a fielder's choice grounder with the bases loaded.

Keyes pitched into the seventh but took the loss as Trumbull dropped to 8-4. St. Joseph improved to 7-4.

"He (Keyes) didn't have his best stuff tonight. He'd be the first to admit that," Trumbull coach Phil Pacelli said. "But he kept us in the game anyway. We had chances."

One of those chances came in the fifth with two on and one out. However, Amoroso worked out of trouble by issuing a pair of pop-outs. He also pitched around a leadoff single in the seventh and finished with five strikeouts.

Amoroso didn't mix up his repertoire too much to survive those jams, either.

"Just fastball," he said. "Fastball, fastball. That's all I could pride myself on. My curveball was a little shaky here and there, two-seam, four-seam were working great."

Coming off a 5-4 loss to Greenwich last Friday, in which the Cadets allowed four runs in the seventh, Chaves was relieved to see his starter secure the win.

"We just haven't closed out a couple games," Chaves said. "That's why it was great what Jake did there in the seventh, closing them out."

Trumbull saw its three-game winning streak snapped in the process.

The Eagles have two more games this week -- Wednesday against Westhill and Thursday at Central -- and Pacelli is sticking with a clear goal for his team.

"Two of out three every week is what we want to do," he said. "If we do that, we'll be where we want to be in the end."